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Bioponica Introduces Organic Hydroponic Grow Table Complete with Aquaponic Tank for Sustainable Plants and Fish Production

Find Bioponica products in Booth #1031 at San Francisco Green Festival, November 10-11 at the SF Concourse Exhibition Center

SAN FRANCISCO – October 29, 2012 Bioponica proudly introduces a brand new product – its one-of-a-kind organic hydroponic grow table, complete with aquaponic tank for sustainable plant production including the optional addition of fish.

The featured 4’x4’ Grow Table with aquaponic fish tank will be on display to demonstrate the Bioponica method of nutrient cycling to grow plants without store bought fertilizers.

This exhibit will show how to get nutrients from grass clippings and food waste. Fish are included but not required. While never before attempted in a commercial setting, the Bioponica method of nutrient cycling was conceived by studying a little known practice among Asian aqua culturists that has taken place for many centuries and continues to this day. Biogarden sizes range from a 1’ square foot aquarium unit to 160’ square foot vertical growing table with dual fish tanks.

All systems are easy to install, require little maintenance and may be used indoors or outdoors. For indoor growers, options include a metal frame to hold lighting and mylar drape for optimizing plant growth and light exposure.

Outdoor growers can use the frame or else a simple HDPE canopy as a cold frame to extend growing season in cooler months. Bioponica’s mission is to promote sustainable living through food and water self-sufficiency by providing education, resources and products to growers worldwide.

Sign up for the Bioponica newsletter (located at the bottom left corner of the homepage) between now and November 15 and enter a raffle for an Aquarium Biogarden for your home or classroom!

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About Bioponica

Bioponica™ was founded by David Epstein, D.O., a holistic physician and innovator, and Kenneth Lovell, P.E., a wastewater engineer and farmer.

Plants and water are our greatest resource and through aquatic nutrient cycling and soil-less ecosystems, plants and fish can be grown, at no cost.  Let us all learn from ancient cultures that practice living in harmony with the environment, and build upon a tradition of sustainability for future generations.

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Stalled NYC construction sites repurposed with gardens, temporary stores

“A remnant of the Great Recession is hiding behind a paint-splattered wall in Chinatown, in an empty lot where a building was supposed to rise into the sky.

The plywood barely conceals the mess behind it: a pile of cement blocks and tangled metal and empty bottles of beer. It is, in short, exactly the sort of place that draws the ire of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

“There’s a lot of bad things that happen in stalled construction sites,” says Stringer, whose office issued a report earlier this year cataloguing the more than 600 stalled sites that are scattered throughout New York City. “Especially if everybody sort of ignores the site and lets it grow in a very unpleasing way.”

Instead of allowing these lots to become eyesores, some developers are coming up with creative ways to use them temporarily until construction can begin. Grow vegetables in milk crates? Sure. Sell doughnuts out of a shipping container? In New York City, where open space is a precious commodity, just about anything goes.”

Stalled NYC construction sites repurposed with gardens, temporary stores via NY Daily News Best Places

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The Green Festival Hits Seattle THIS Weekend!

“AM 1090 wants YOU to go GREEN at the Seattle Green Festival, THIS WEEKEND at Qwest Event Center!

Join AM 1090 & Don Willis Furniture for the Festival at the Qwest Field Event Center THIS  Saturday, May 21, 2011 10am – 7pm & Sunday, May 22, 2011 11am – 6pm! PLUS when you stop by our booth, you can enter to win 2 Natural Cedar Adirondack chairs courtesy of Don Willis Furniture!”

The Green Festival Hits Seattle THIS Weekend! via CBS Seattle

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Green Festivals a Place for Everything Green

SAN FRANCISCO – The largest sustainability event in the world celebrates 10 years this year. The founders of Green Festival expect approximately 30,000 to 40,000 attendees at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center April 9 – 10. This one-of-a-kind weekend experience offers the opportunity for community members to meet their favorite authors, actors and community leaders as well as shop more than 300 eco-friendly exhibitors.

All this while being able to participate in educational workshops; enjoy live music, sample local vegetarian cuisine; organic chocolates, wine and beer.

There are ten stages and pavilions feature more than 125 inspirational and educational speakers including: Amy Goodman, The Fabulous Beekman Boys, John Perkins, Dr. Sharif Abdullah, Zoe Weil, Favianna Rodriguez and Mark Hertsgaard, to name a few.”

Green Festivals a Place for Everything Green via Chris McGrath – Thrifty and Green

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Worm Composting Is a Hit With Kids

“You shop at the farmers’ market religiously and buy all the right greens and veggies to make a meal bursting with vitamins and minerals for your family. But it’s not always easy raising a child who loves fruits, veggies, and salads—so consider adding a fascinating science lesson to your tactics. All you need is a few thousand wiggly worm friends to eat your kitchen scraps—waste that would normally go into the trash and, ultimately, the landfill. For kids, worm composting gives food preparation a special mission: The worms must be fed!”

Worm Composting Is a Hit With Kids via Jessica Iclisoy – Eucalyptus Magazine

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Growing food and recycling trash into garden tools

“More people are interested in growing their own food, said Yvonne Savio, manager of the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program.

“There is so much more interest in gardening now because of the economy and issues with obesity and diabetes,” she said.

But gardening, Savio noted, is also about being creative and imaginative in reusing what you have. So on Sunday, Savio will discuss how throwaway items can be reused as tools in the garden.”

Growing food and recycling trash into garden tools via LA Times Home

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Green Festival Features Organic Gardening and Urban Farming Pavilion

Green Festival Features Organic Gardening and Urban Farming Pavilion by SF East Bay Organic Gardening Examiner Carol Rossi via Examiner.com

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Sustainable Landscapes, Step-5: Sustainability, ‘Go Green’ at DC Green Festival

Sustainable Landscapes, Step-5: Sustainability, ‘Go Green’ at DC Green Festival by Sylvia Wright via The Wright Scoop

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Herb Your Enthusiasm: Good City Farm Gardening Workshops

Herb Your Enthusiasm: Good City Farm Gardening Workshops via Washington Post Express Night Out

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Wright Scoop Implements 5-Step Sustainable Landscape Program

Washington, D.C. — September 17, 2010 Sylvia Hoehns Wright, recipient of the Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic Award sponsored by Hines Horticulture, Project Evergreen and Today’s Garden Center magazine, has implemented a 5-step sustainable landscape program. Starting the week of September 20th each week she posts eco tips/strategies on her www.TheWrightScoop.com blog, @ WrightScoop on twitter, and facebook group The Wright Scoop. As a final step to the program, she invites all to the Organic Gardening and Urban Farming Pavilion at DC Green Festival Saturday, October 23, from 12:30 to 1:15pm to hear her presentation: ” Gardening Green: the sustainable landscape.”  A signing of her book From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: Landscape Green is hosted by Washington Gardener Magazine and held at their exhibit booth.

Whether experienced or novice, homeowner or renter all are challenged to create landscapes from a sustainable point of view, seeking to reduce their carbon footprint as well as create pesticide free edible landscapes.  Eco-chic advocate Sylvia Hoehns Wright – author of From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: Landscape Green says:

“Any style should not simply illustrate traditional design but be the result of the right plant, installed in the right place at the right (optimal) planting season – creating a legacy of green, healthier urban/suburban communities.”

Wright further advises consumers to take the concept of sustainability a step further, not simply a use of plants that works-well in their region but those that contribute to regional economic sustainability: developed, grown and distributed within their community.

“Historically,” she adds,  ”earth-friendly” is defined in terms of reduce, reuse and recycle. Eco-chic takes earth-friendly a step further. It is a reflection of how we feel about the environment, not just as a lifestyle choice but a decorating style as well.” During her speech – ‘Gardening Green, the sustainable landscape’, Wright shares strategies that respect an existing vista, preserving and enhancing its health. For as Wright emphasizes, plants should not simply be selected to provide contrast of structure, texture or color, but make environmental contributions, too.
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About Sylvia Hoehns Wright

An earth-friendly columnist, contributing writer and speaker, Sylvia Hoehns Wright is a graduate of the VA Natural Resource Leadership Institute program. Featured by VA Home Grown WCVE Richmond PBS TV and the best of Birds & Blooms 2006, she is a contributing writer for Washington Gardener, Green Profit, HouseTrends, Today’s Garden Center magazines and the Mid-Atlantic Grower and Times Dispatch newspapers; volunteers as public relations for Virginia “go green” projects, and blogs on HGTV-Green, http://www.buildinggreentv.com/user/thewrightscoop/blog.

As a Board member for an arts association – the National League of American Pen Women, www.nlapw.org – based in DC, she is actively involved in the preservation of the Pen Arts building and its grounds located near DuPont Circle.

Wright challenges Green Festival attendees to green their landscapes eco-chic style – the right plant, installed in the right place at the right (optimal) planting season – creating a legacy of green and a healthier community. For details, connect via web site www.TheWrightScoop.com

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